It has long been said that crises define leaders, and COVID certainly qualifies. The past year has demanded leaders embrace traits not always associated with high offices and boardrooms: empathy, listening, creative collaboration, and authentic engagement with employees. These qualities are overwhelmingly associated with women. The pandemic has presented us with a real-time experiment in...

As we begin to experience a downward curve in the second wave in most countries in the region – coupled with increased access to vaccines – there is a need to rethink how we will engage with, plan and budget towards interventions aimed at economic and social recovery in ways that advance gender equality and...

New York, 15 March — The 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65), the UN’s largest gathering on gender equality and women’s rights, opens today as an almost entirely virtual session, with the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the foreground, and preparing the ground for the forthcoming Generation Equality Forum, which...

Factors that contribute to adolescent pregnancies  Adolescent pregnancies are a global problem occurring in high-middle-and low-income countries  Around the world, however, adolescent pregnancies are more likely to occur in marginalized communities.  It is commonly driven by poverty and lack of education and employment opportunities  In many societies, girls are under pressure...

Dr. Esther Priscila Biamah-Danquah, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Director has disclosed that the Municipality witnessed 69 cases of teenage pregnancies in 2020. “I know last year we recorded about 69 cases of teenage pregnancies and this is alarming, even one case calls for an action,” Dr Biamah-Danquah stated at Kpone near Tema during the launch...

Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) held a leadership forum for students of the Accra Girls’ Senior High School in the Greater Accra region to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD). The forum took place under a sub-theme “amplifying the voices of girls for change.” The IWD is celebrated on March 8 every year and...

Dr. Charity Binka, Executive Director of Women in Media and Change (WOMEC), says women are resourceful in the face of adversity and can contribute to make the world a better place to live in when given the opportunity. She said there were a number of women in the country and the world had attained higher...

    Providing solutions for pre-term pregnancy issues More than three quarters of premature babies can be saved with feasible, cost-effective care, such as essential care during childbirth and in the postnatal period for every mother and baby. There must be provision of antenatal steroid injections (given to pregnant women at risk of preterm labour...

The Women, Media and Change (WOMEC), a non-governmental organization, has launched the Gender Transformative Programming (GTP), TurningPoint Project, to foster gender equality in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality. A situational analysis WOMEC conducted in the municipality among residents revealed an increase in gender-based violence and teenage pregnancies, necessitating the project. Ms Dulcie Delali Attipoe, WOMEC Programmes Coordinator,...

Meet some inspiring grass-roots women leaders who are bringing lasting change to their communities, supported by the United Nations Date: Monday, March 1, 2021   The data is clear. Despite women’s increased engagement in public decision-making roles, equality is far off: women hold about 21 percent of ministerial positions globally, only three countries have 50 percent or more...